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Title[edit]

Foundations of Clustering

Speaker[edit]

Neal Gupta

Abstract[edit]

This talk will provide an introduction to the unsupervised learning problem of clustering. I will introduce k-means clustering and discuss the well-known computational limitations of optimal clustering. I will also present an impossibility result that provides some intuition into desirable properties of clustering that are feasible, for example through balanced k-means clustering.

The topics discussed in this talk are primarily from Chapter 8 of the Hopcroft-Kannan book: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/book11April2014.pdf